'Obamacare' already aiding consumers

I have been carrying catastrophic medical insurance coverage since 1970; the premium runs about $400 a year. This coverage would be a savior if either my wife or I had a crippling injury or illness.

Recently, I had an amazing - and wonderful - surprise! I was sent a check giving us a rebate of approximately 20 percent of our 2012 premium payment.

The enclosed letter explained that a provision of the Affordable Care Act (which some Republican congressmen sneeringly term "Obamacare") states: If an insurance company does not spend 85 percent of its premium income on medical care for its policyholders, the company must then give rebates - up to that 85 percent.

Unfortunately, some of those same lawmakers have now vowed to overturn "Obamacare"!

Hey, who cares about those 47 million Americans who - prior to this act - had no health insurance!

Or the little children with cancer who, once again, can be denied coverage because of a "pre-existing condition"!

Wouldn't it have been great if the Affordable Care Act had been passed in 1970, and we (now aged) policyholders might have received rebates for many of the subsequent years?

Do you think these "reluctant congressmen" will refuse to cash "their" rebate checks?

Irv Cowle

Somers

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'Obamacare' already aiding consumers

I have been carrying catastrophic medical insurance coverage since 1970; the premium runs about $400 a year. This coverage would be a savior if either my wife or I had a crippling injury or illness.

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